Measurement of the Atmospheric ve flux in IceCube

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Measurement of the Atmospheric ve flux in IceCube

F. Mcnally Christian Bohm G. C. Hill Gerald Przybylski A. Zilles M. Zoll L. Mohrmann L. Gladstone D. Bindig D. Seckel S. Miarecki S. Miarecki M. Voge R. Hellauer S. Seunarine A. R. Fazely Tyce Deyoung P. A. Toale P. Berghaus J. Kläs Ignacio Taboada S. Flis J. Dreyer S. Euler A. Tamburro J. P. Rodrigues Y. Abdou T. Stezelberger J. Kunnen S. M. Saba C. Walck Damian Pieloth J. Leute S. Odrowski J. Van Santen L. Köpke J. Feintzeig A. M. Brown K. Schatto D. Altmann G. Kohnen B. Ruzybayev J. Auffenberg F. Scheriau Klas Hultqvist A. Obertacke J. Kiryluk K. Rawlins A. O'murchadha Axel Groß A. Fedynitch T. Fuchs C. Finley K. Mase James Madsen Aya Ishihara P. Meszaros Stijn Buitink Segev Benzvi M. Vraeghe M. Merck O. Fadiran T. Schmidt S. Böser J. Blumenthal Spencer Klein Spencer Klein M. Krasberg J. J. Beatty O. Schulz F. Clevermann C. Sheremata S. Bohaichuk Y. Sestayo K. Beattie Teresa Montaruli S. Westerhoff J. Eisch V. Baum H. Taavola Olga Botner G. De Vries-uiterweerd Albrecht Karle D. Soldin H. Landsman H. S. Matis Kara Hoffman S. Hussain J. P. Yanez E. Blaufuss S. Panknin K. Clark J. C. Davis T. R. Wood D. J. Koskinen A. H. Cruz Silva M. Wellons J. Posselt A. Schönwald A. Homeier Kurt Woschnagg Paul Evenson R. W. Ellsworth Christian Spiering Francis Halzen J.-h. Köhne H. Wissing S. Yoshida A. Stößl A. Van Overloop S. Schoenen Dariusz Gora G. W. Sullivan K. Meagher M. Dunkman R. Ström M. Wolf S. C. Nowicki C. Pfendner P. Zarzhitsky Reina H. Maruyama L. Schulte W. Huelsnitz S. De Ridder Wolfgang Rhode D. J. Boersma D. J. Boersma Christopher Wiebusch L. Schönherr E. Jacobi D. Ryckbosch Allan Hallgren R. Morse Dmitry Chirkin K. Helbing M. Labare C. Kopper G. Golup Kael Hanson Jürgen Brunner D. Bose Alexander Kappes J. Daughhetee K. Frantzen T. Salameh M. L. Benabderrahmane S. Schöneberg M. Casier D. Berley S. H. Seo N. Milke Steven W. Barwick George Japaridze C. De Clercq R. Nahnhauer S. Bechet Donglian Xu P. B. Price J. Lünemann O. Engdegård J. Miller Paolo Desiati R. C. Bay Juanan Aguilar M. G. Aartsen M. Lesiak-bzdak P. Redl J. Becker Tjus M. Olivo T. Feusels N. Van Eijndhoven R. Bruijn Subir Sarkar B. Christy Markus Ackermann S. Zierke T. Karg J. E. Jacobsen L. Paul B. Riedel J. A. Pepper A. Schukraft Marcos Santander M. J. Carson P. Heimann A. Stasik T. Kuwabara D. Heereman L. Gerhardt L. Gerhardt G. Kroll B. Eberhardt Elisa Resconi Michael S. Bell Kirill Filimonov M. Vehring D. F. Cowen C. Ha C. Ha J. Berdermann Todor Stanev Jay Gallagher Dawn Williams M. J. Larson M. W. E. Smith D. Z. Besson Darren Grant M. Schmitz K. Jero Fabian Kislat J. C. Díaz-vélez S. Kopper R. Hoffmann R. Franke R. Eagan Thomas K. Gaisser G. B. Yodh M. Baker A. Olivas D. Van Der Drift D. Van Der Drift T. Ruhe S. Cohen M. Kowalski T. Meures R. Wasserman H. G. Sander B. Kaminsky N. Whitehorn Chris Wendt L. Brayeur A. Franckowiak E. A. Strahler Mike Richman M. Soiron E. Middell Elisa Bernardini Hermann Kolanoski M. Ribordy Rasha Abbasi Ch. Weaver J. Casey Chun Xu K. Hoshina Jenni Adams D. Heinen Glenn Spiczak U. Naumann K. H. Becker S. Hickford R. G. Stokstad T. Glüsenkamp Carsten Rott A. Goldschmidt Dave Nygren Michael Stamatikos M. Bissok P. O. Hulth J. A. Goodman T. Fischer-wasels Xianwu Xu S. Toscano J. Ziemann C. Pérez De Los Heros N. Pirk O. Jlelati M. Scheel S. Tilav L. Rädel K. Wiebe A. Bernhard J. L. Kelley M. Wallraff A. Haj Ismail Markus Ahlers M. Usner Hans Niederhausen Samvel Ter-antonyan D. Bertrand T. Waldenmaier M. Gurtner M. Danninger Xinhua Bai N. Kurahashi

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DEEPCORE Particle physics AMANDA Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors Solar neutrino Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Physics and Astronomy ddc:500.2 01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear physics SEARCH 0103 physical sciences ddc:550 010306 general physics Neutrino oscillation DETECTOR Physics 010308 nuclear & particles physics High Energy Physics::Phenomenology Solar neutrino problem Cosmic neutrino background Neutrino detector Physics and Astronomy 13. Climate action Measurements of neutrino speed High Energy Physics::Experiment Neutrino astronomy Neutrino NEUTRINO-INDUCED CASCADES Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

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We report the first measurement of the atmospheric electron neutrino flux in the energy range between approximately 80 GeV and 6 TeV, using data recorded during the first year of operation of IceCube's DeepCore low energy extension. Techniques to identify neutrinos interacting within the DeepCore volume and veto muons originating outside the detector are demonstrated. A sample of 1029 events is observed in 281 days of data, of which 496 $\pm$ 66(stat.) $\pm$ 88(syst.) are estimated to be cascade events, including both electron neutrino and neutral current events. The rest of the sample includes residual backgrounds due to atmospheric muons and charged current interactions of atmospheric muon neutrinos. The flux of the atmospheric electron neutrinos is consistent with models of atmospheric neutrinos in this energy range. This constitutes the first observation of electron neutrinos and neutral current interactions in a very large volume neutrino telescope optimized for the TeV energy range.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2012-12-19	Physical Review Letters

10.1103/physrevlett.110.151105 http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b9950918-a952-4479-8d62-69312637d47b